Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-22
WHY SOME WOMEN POSE.
Beautiful Forms TGat Are Seen Only In
the Artists StudiO-A Bashful
Shop Girl.
Models Who Sit in Charming Undress for
Vanity and Gain-PIatn Faces and
Pretty Forms.
New York Star.

A Star reporter asked q well known
artist: "Why does an artist have to have
model" l asked. "With all the
statues and pictures and sketches that
already exist, why must he still go to the
original flesh for his designs?"
"This is realistic age" was the reply.
"Artists used to study the antique, the
antique forever. Now they want the
real thing-the thing Of life. The art
schools used to demand that a figure be
so many heads high. Now they want
them as they are, all varying, as faces
vary, as everything varies in actual life.
In Paris there are artists who go about
the streets in wagons with peep holes cut
in the sides Of the wagon tops, stopping
wherever there is queer posture or in
teresting group or pretty face or anything
worth reproducing. Pictures now must
together, it is to be observed that one
gets all the subtIeties of COlOring, Vein
| ing and skin texture, while the other
misses most of them. 1t is the same with
| landscape painting. Landscapes used
mainly to be invented. Now artists are
not contented without getting even the
painting in, and all it's effects on the
ground and leaves of trees.
san artist demands of his model that
she shall be plump, pretty and clean.
Artists endeaVor to get sittings from
their models in the morning, when the
model is Just out Of bed, SO she shall be
| fresh, vigorous and spirited. They pay
| for private models about 81 or $50 an
| hour and usually entertain them at
! luncheon. There is no end Ofmen models.
Artists find that they can get almost any
man to pose, draped or nude, for q third
! less than women demand. Every artist
| has the addresses of fifty men. If an
artist opens studio in this city it won't
be three days before they and many
women will call and ask for work and beg
| for money.
| "Women differ very much. Sarony,
the photographer and artist, says Of all
| the women he has seen but two were per-
! feet. The consequence is that this one
| is chosen to pose for her limbs, another
! for her torso; or trunk, and SO on.
| Women who have thin and Unprepos-
sesslng faces often possess the most
| beautiful forms. The face is no criterion
| In Judging of model. Artists all agree
that the vanity which woman is charged
with possessing is no SANDER upon the
sex, for in private life it is found that
many women, the prOudest and most cor
rect, can more or less easily be got to
| pose regularly, draped or deCOllete or in
short skirts. Thus figures not obtainable
among models are often procured for
nothing, and the women are proud OF
being selected for this purpose. This is
especially so with married women. Once
| they trust the honor of an artist they will
suffer themselves to be put in any postare,
no matter how ridiculous. Artists find
! that when they set up their easels in the
! country the men will laugh at them, but
! the women will draw near to be
sketched"
My artist friend told me an interesting
story of an experience he had with a
woman, now celebrated model, when
she first posed in studio. She dropped
upon him saying that she had been a
counter girl in O'Neil's, q shopping store,
at about Sc week, and could not make
both ends meet; that lady friend, who
was model, had spoken of him as q
gentleman, and that if he needed a sub
ieCt she would like him to tell her what to
do. He told her what she would have to
accustom herself to if she followed that
life, but she said she knew all about it.
He pointed to a screen and babe her 60
behind it and take off her things. Pres
emily she reappeared, but in little more
undress than if she were about to retire.
Informed that this was not what was
wanted, she disappeared and next revealed
herself in complete undress, but
with her back to the artist. Here was an
extraordinarily beautiful form; and as he
made a sketch of her figure he debated
with himself how he should deal with
her. He resolved to be wholly business
like, and so, walking over to where she
stood, he babe her turn around, and posed
her as he wished her to stand. By the
time he reached his easel she was bent
double and INDUCING in fit of crying,
blended with almost hysteriCal laughter.
He told her it was quite evident that she
had better give up her ambition and
return to her former life, andhe supposed
she would. But she did not.
She is now one Of the most noted and
priced models in town. She remains
perfectly good girl, but is not averse to
sitting entirely disrobed, and smoking
cigarette while curled up like Turk on
lounge, waiting for her employer to begin
work. The most popular model now,
however. is former model who has been
married and had several children and has
at Last been obliged to return to the old
life in order to support her husband.
Models in good demand make $25a week.
most curious fact that, my informant
SAYS, has been noticed among artists is
that the demi-monde cannot be got to
pose as models. 1t would be inferred
from that that the most utter shameless
ness is found in those who do that work,
and yet very many-in fact all who have
a modicum of brains-are good women
who lead orderly lives and keep admira-
bic homes.